<p>Just a note, Go Dog Go is by P.D. Eastman, not Dr. Suess.</p>
<p>Do you like my hat?</p>
<p>I loved “Happy Birthday to You” and “The First of Octember.”</p>
<p>But it’s just impossible to beat the Grinch.</p>
<p>My mom was a kindergarten teacher for 30 years and often did an author or illustrator study with her classes. One year she focused on Dr. Seuss and had her class paint a beautiful McElligot’s Pool–each child painted one fish. She had the class dictate a group letter and then she packaged it all up and mailed it off to Dr. Seuss. A few months later, the school secretary called over the intercom into my mom’s classroom: “Mrs. G.–you have a letter here from Dr. Seuss!” He sent an autographed photo and an original poem to her and her class! (This was back in the dark ages when few teachers or students wrote to authors/illustrators.)</p>